By Jim Farrell On May 3, 2022, she would have been100 years-old, an age she wanted to achieve, but she died three and a half years ago. This lady was raised in the logging camps of the Olympic Peninsula, on the “west end”, where the only way to even reach Port Angeles, WA was by…
An Encampment, Naval Base, Coast Guard Station, Lighthouse Service, and Safe Haven Learning to sail on the Columbia River has given many generations of NW sailors the skills and confidence to cross the Columbia River Bar and head north, south or even west. Here is where we’ve learned about the Rules of the road; Red…
(Given the current administration of our country and the chaos not only here in the US, but even how it now affects our northern neighbors, maybe it’s time to look back to a time the Canadians welcomed us into their lives). Editor Every trip through the Inside Passage going to and from SE Alaska is…
By Jim Farrell We were riding our anchor at Mud Bay, Lopez Island in our “new to us” Lady B, a Hughes North Star 38, waking up in the V-berth the morning after a great run from Bellingham. Becky, my new to sailing wife, rolled over and began to tell me of her dream of…
By Jim Farrell Ah, after our long drawn-out winter, now is the time too head down to the boat and begin our summer of water adventures. Some Columbia River sailors will head out across the Bar and head north or south while most of us with just a little time will cruise the mighty Columbia,…